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(Probably, would not help the original poster, but may help someone who is directed here by Google). I just ran into a similar issue with Win 7: updates would not arrive, and KB947821 would be "Searching for updates on this computer" forever. Turned out that BITS service for some reason was not running and was set to Manual start. After starting it (and ...

Is this a once off? If so you can probably get away with just the shutdown command; no scheduled task needed.
Eg, to restart in 12 hrs (or 43200 seconds):
shutdown -r -t 43200
Unfortunately, this doesn't work on all versions; Server 2003 and Vista restrict you to 600 seconds (10 minutes). For all versions since then and, strangely, also XP, the maximum ...

I know this doesn't solve your whole problem but for versions of Windows Server since 2008, and in cases where you only need the server to reboot once, you don't need to bother with scheduled tasks. The built in shutdown command lets you specify a delay in seconds using the the -t parameter.
Eg, to restart in 12 hrs (or 43200 seconds):
shutdown -r -t ...

It was hard but I finally figured it out.
Run "mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd".
Go to the file and open it in notepad++ (c:\cygwin\etc...).
There, you will notice that the account listings is similar to (for a local account) machine-name+username. (eg- xyz+joe:*:...)
To be sure, open PuTTY and try to connect with this entire username. i.e. +. You should be ...

For those that still asking this question.
To update, use the command below (2008 and 2012 server compatible)
w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:"ntp_server" /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update
change the ntp_server with your source
Restart the time service
net stop w32time
net start w32time
Resync the time
w32tm /resync
Verify your sync ...

The Server Fault Site has an answer for this.
http://serverfault.com/questions/669810/windows-2008-r2-standard-server-how-to-disable-rc4
The real key seems to be to use the IIS Crypto app from Nartac, which was an app I was apprehensive to install and try on a publicly facing server.

Looks like a local or domain group policy. Run gpedit.msc on the machine in question and expand the following policy tree:
Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Security Options > Interactive Logon: Do not display last user name
Set that to "Disabled" and see if that does it. You can run gpupdate ...

When the DC boots up it goes across the WAN to pull down the DNS zone from the DNS server in the central office - That isn't technically correct. When booting up, a DC will inbound replicate all AD partitions, including AD integrated DNS zones (which are AD partitions when the zone is AD integrated), so the booting DC isn't technically pulling a copy of the ...

When the DC boots up it goes across the WAN to pull down the DNS zone from the DNS server in the central office.
AD integrated DNS server replicate the DNS zone information through Active Directory replication, as the zone information is actually stored in Active Directory. When the DC boots up it replicates all AD information, including the DNS zones ...

You can get the size by mapping the drive to a letter and querying it with the Get-PSDrive cmdlet. Works without admin access on the server or even write access to the share.
net use T: \\server\share
$freebytes=(Get-PSDrive T).Free
net use T: /delete

You can use WMI to get the free disk space as a non-administrative user, but you first of all need to change the WMI permissions on the remote server.
From wmimgmt.msc on the remote server, and then right-click on "WMI Control (Local)", and select the Security tab, then highlight CIMv2 and click the "Security" button. From here give the user you want to be ...

There is a non WMI based EXE called Freedisk that works without admin privileges.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc731162.aspx
It returns a 0 if there is enough space and a 1 if there is not enough space.
PS C:\temp> freedisk \\server1\share1 9mb
OK
PS C:\temp> $lastExitCode
0
PS C:\temp> freedisk \\server1\share1 99999999999999999mb
...

This could be a symptom of agressive File System Caching.
Download RAMMap from Sysinternals to find out what is taking up all this memory
As described in the kb article, you need to look for large Available or Standby Memory claims in the "Metafile" usage category:

I used to work in an environment with 5,000 workgroup computers--no domain. I can assure you that it's not Active Directory (or your lack of same).
My personal opinion is that yes, there are a lot of benefits to installing a domain controller, including software installs, authentication, etc., but one of these benefits will most likely not be an end to ...

I found the answer to this was 15 people trying to brute force my RDP on port 3389.
Open up a command prompt and type netstat -n look for your IP:3389 if there is more than 1 connection that's not yourself then somebody is trying to get in.
Solution to stop near 100% CPU was change the default 3389 to something else.
You can google a solution for this, ...

What DNS servers are assigned to each client via DHCP? If it's anything other than your AD DNS server then that is the root of your problem and you need to stop doing that. AD domain joined computers should only use the AD DNS servers for DNS. If you're having a problem with internet connectivity/DNS name resolution with that configuration then you need to ...

I dont know whether my solution is right to this answer but I wanted to free up the 443 port to use it with Apache httpd and I just changed the ListenerPort registry key (select decimal first and then change) to 473.
Now the RRAS binds to 473 on IPv4 and IPv6 both.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\SstpSvc\Parameters
ListenerPort Value in ...

There's powershell:
Add-DnsServerResourceRecordA
You can run that from your local machine.
Additionally, for one A record, you don't have to use Remote Desktop to use the GUI tools. Pretty much anything that works as a snap-in to the Management Console (including the GUI Windows Server DNS tools) supports running over a network.
The first thing you ...

I ran into this same issue when running the salt-minion as "Local System" account on Windows. It has something to do with git itself when running as that user. Git is trying to do something which times out. The actual command succeeds, but is slowed down by whatever is timing out. It's a git issue.

Network discovery isn't the function or responsibility of a single component. While NetBIOS is one of those components, it isn't the only one. If you want to disable Network Discovery then you should do it from the advanced sharing settings in Network and Sharing center.

Just use windows server backup.
1) Restore just the OS partition to the ssd
2) Restore the Data partition to hdd
If you are short of a backup destination do it the following way.
1) Backup to the 1TB drive and restore to the SSD, just the OS
2) Use clonezilla to clone the data partition, or even something like unstoppable copier at this point. (If you are ...

VB has nothing to do with the cause of the error.
This is a common error all the way back to xp and is normally caused because the licensing mode of the server you are connecting to is set to per device. To resolve the issue delete the following registry key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing
However if after deleting this you still have ...

Are you sure that the computer is on? I am not sure what the exact threshold is but if a client does not check in for a predetermined period of time it will move into an inactive state.
If you know the machine is on, your best bet initially in my experience is to simply reinstall the client. If that does not work, you will need to dig into the logs and ...

Open EAC (Exchange Admin Center).
Select Mail Flow on the Left Panel Menu.
Select Accepted Domains from the Top Menu.
Click the + icon.
Enter a name in Name, enter the fqdn of the subdomain in Accepted Domain. ("subdomain.example.com").
Select Authoritative domain.
Select Save
Don't forget to add/update an MX record for the subdomain.
To confirm the ...

If you're selecting a disk as the backup location for Windows Server Backup then WSB effectively takes over that disk and doesn't allow user access to that disk. It removes it from Disk Management (AFAIK) so it won't show up there nor in Windows/File Explorer. You're going to have to select a network share (other than your Samba share) as your backup target ...

If you're using the Windows Backup utility, you should be allowed to select a location from the Windows Backup Wizard. You can do this by:
Going to 'Start'
Clicking 'Control Panel'
Clicking 'System and Maintenance'
Clicking 'Backup and Restore'
Editing the appropriate task to pick a new location for your backups
If you're talking about the volume shadow ...

Fresh new installation of Drupal shouldn't require a lot of memory. Most havy page is '/modules'. If any other page require more memory it means a slow/bad/wrong code was added to site. It could be a 3rd party modules or slow sql queries.
Try this:
Go to PHP Status page (admin/reports/status/php) and check memory limits there.
Memory limits could also be ...

I believe this is the command you are looking for:
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=5555 listenaddress=192.168.0.1 connectport=3389 connectaddress=192.168.0.2
To view the result:
netsh interface portproxy show all

Didn't have time to follow what magicandre1981 suggested, but was able to confirm that the patch solved the issue. Maybe this will be helpful to others that have a similar memory leak issue.
Another thing we noticed: running a full Windows update seems to include this fix, but in some other patch. After we ran a full windows update on another server with ...

I have been back through all the settings on a recreated base image. I set the policy keys using the local group policy editor, and this time the reboot behaviour is working as expected. The AlwaysAutoRebootAtScheduledTime key is identical in the registry to the earlier entry from GPP, so I believe that either there was a conflicting group policy (I ...

Since you asked for PowerShell, you can use WMI and set it via the Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration provider:
Get-WMIObject win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
This will list the adapters you have, then you can select a specific one:
$adapter = Get-WMIObject win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Filter "Index=X"
# or use PowerShell filtering
$adapter = ...

No there isn't, but you shouldn't be assigning individual users to shared folders anyway. Use groups and then add users to those groups. Then you won't need to keep propagating permission changes and also keeps you from having a disaster of ACEs in your ACLs.

We've had issues in the past when virtual machines have consumed too much memory and the host has locked up. There is a way to reserve some memory for Hyper-V which might help you. This solved some problems for us.
The registry path to use is explained here. It's a DWORD and should be specified in MB, for example 2048.
...

Domain based Account Policies are applied from the Default Domain GPO. If you're configuring them in another GPO then that GPO must be linked at the Domain level and must have a higher precedence than the Default Domain policy.
Because Account Policies are Computer Configuration settings they affect the local security account database on the machines that ...

You can setup Performance Monitor to log memory used per process. Under available counters, scroll down to the Process object, expand it. Add Private Bytes, Working Set and Working Set-Private. Make sure to select so it would show you a breakdown per individual process instead of totals. That will show you the memory allocated per process and hopefully ...

AFAIK there is no other EventLog modules for nxlog.
It could be possible that Enterprise version is more capable in this field than Community version I assume your are using.
Maybe not directly answering your question but you can try other log shipper ... I recommend https://github.com/Cimpress-MCP/TimberWinR, it uses MS's LogParser to access EventLog.

Built-in GPO for proxy settings is messed up. Not only you need to set up settings for each version of IE (and download admx files for ie11), they are really sometimes just dont work.
Therefore I suggest modifying registry instead. In
User Configuration > Preferences > Registry
you can specify any custom registry values you want.
In particular, ...

Add a domain controller (or take a clone of one of the existing ones)
Move it to your test network, fire it up.
Seize all of the FSMO roles.
Use ntdsutil to clean up the old DCs that it can no longer contact.

It's not possible to do this via PowerShell (the docs aren't explicit about this, but you can see Server 2008 is not listed at the top of the page), but you can use netsh:
netsh interface ip add dnsserver "Local Area Connection" 10.0.0.1

So after a lot more googling (I hoped somebody here will do it for me ;) I figured it out! The field "task" is not a path to a program, but name of a task which needs to be defined in Task Scheduler! I would expect this field to be a combobox with selection of all tasks, but it is not, so it is pretty unclear what it means. So I defined a simple task in Task ...

I found a solution. Since our server, which receives the fax, is a DomainController I added DOMAIN\DomainController as an authorized user at the FileStation.
Now the server has write access, regardless the executing account. This can be a bit of a security issue, but I restricted the access to certain folders only.